cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem is acquired in read mode during process exit
and fork. It is also grabbed in write mode during
__cgroups_proc_write(). I've recently run into a scenario with lots
of memory pressure and OOM and I am beginning to see
systemd
__switch_to+0x1f8/0x350
__schedule+0x30c/0x990
schedule+0x48/0xc0
percpu_down_write+0x114/0x170
__cgroup_procs_write.isra.12+0xb8/0x3c0
cgroup_file_write+0x74/0x1a0
kernfs_fop_write+0x188/0x200
__vfs_write+0x6c/0xe0
vfs_write+0xc0/0x230
SyS_write+0x6c/0x110
system_call+0x38/0xb4
This thread is waiting on the reader of cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem to
exit. The reader itself is under memory pressure and has gone into
reclaim after fork. There are times the reader also ends up waiting on
oom_lock as well.
__switch_to+0x1f8/0x350
__schedule+0x30c/0x990
schedule+0x48/0xc0
jbd2_log_wait_commit+0xd4/0x180
ext4_evict_inode+0x88/0x5c0
evict+0xf8/0x2a0
dispose_list+0x50/0x80
prune_icache_sb+0x6c/0x90
super_cache_scan+0x190/0x210
shrink_slab.part.15+0x22c/0x4c0
shrink_zone+0x288/0x3c0
do_try_to_free_pages+0x1dc/0x590
try_to_free_pages+0xdc/0x260
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x72c/0xc90
alloc_pages_current+0xb4/0x1a0
page_table_alloc+0xc0/0x170
__pte_alloc+0x58/0x1f0
copy_page_range+0x4ec/0x950
copy_process.isra.5+0x15a0/0x1870
_do_fork+0xa8/0x4b0
ppc_clone+0x8/0xc
In the meanwhile, all processes exiting/forking are blocked almost
stalling the system.
This patch moves the threadgroup_change_begin from before
cgroup_fork() to just before cgroup_canfork(). There is no nee to
worry about threadgroup changes till the task is actually added to the
threadgroup. This avoids having to call reclaim with
cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem held.
tj: Subject and description edits.
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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